Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29885/supplement/12735. Captain William Anderson Bloomfield, Scout Corps, 2nd South African Mounted Brigade. On 24th August 1916 at Mlali, East Africa, when consolidating his new position after being heavily attacked and being forced to retire, Captain Bloomfield found that one of the wounded – a corporal – had not been evacuated with the rest. At considerable personal risk the captain went back over 400 yards of ground swept by machine-gun and rifle fire and managed to reach the wounded man and bring him back to safety.
Fold3_Team · Oct 31, 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29885/supplement/12735. Captain William Anderson Bloomfield, Scout Corps, 2nd South African Mounted Brigade. On 24th August 1916 at Mlali, East Africa, when consolidating his new position after being heavily attacked and being forced to retire, Captain Bloomfield found that one of the wounded – a corporal – had not been evacuated with the rest. At considerable personal risk the captain went back over 400 yards of ground swept by machine-gun and rifle fire and managed to reach the wounded man and bring him back to safety.